Southeast Asian Garden

A region that grows on every margin. Lemongrass clumped at a Bali doorway, makrut lime leaves picked at a Chiang Mai porch, Thai basil and holy basil sown on a Hanoi terrace, kangkong climbing a Manila ditch, banana leaves rolled out for a Yogyakarta wrapping, pandan trained over a Penang patio, papaya potted on a Saigon balcony, the betel leaf shading a Tagalog bed — a garden built on the home-front plot, the rice-bund margin, and the year-round monsoon.

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